Christmastime is here! It is a time to light candles, bake cookies, put up trees, hang stockings, gather with family and find the perfect gifts for our loved ones.
However, I often wonder: In all our efforts to manufacture the “ideal” Christmas, do we too often leave out the Creator?
Celebrating hope often makes us feel hopeless?
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another:
just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.
–John 13:34-35